Robert Marsala

St. Nicholas Breaker — Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania

“You went to work nice and clean and came home filthy dirty. Every day it was tough. But that’s the way it goes when you’re working in the coal fields and in the coal mines and in a breaker.” — Joseph Peel, former St. Nicholas worker

Robert Marsala

St. Nicholas Breaker — Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania

By the time I visited here, the building was just a skeleton as demolition had begun during in the previous year – then stopped. I had to remain alert to my surroundings as each step could potentially be my last…